Author: Alissa Lopez

From systematic racism to the patriarchy, the left has done a fairly good job of sectioning off a large portion of society and labeling them all as victims of the political and social environment in our country. This rhetoric implies that since I’m both a minority and a woman, I’m not allowed to be anything other than oppressed. Regardless of the immense privileges I’ve had mostly due to, believe it or not, my ethnicity, I’m still persecuted by society. I’m not denying that some people may have it slightly easier than others (more so in terms of economic advantages). But people are...

Something I have learned about over the past year is the permanent emotional state among members of the political left: pessimism. In my experience, a liberal will be able to rattle off all the horrendous things happening in the world (or at least what they believe to be terrible), as opposed to the positive things. And more often than not, for some reason, a liberal will take a not-so-bad situation to the extreme. Talk about negative. Take, for example, a Donald Trump presidency. What I observed during a course I took in the fall was that those three words essentially meant the end of...

In December of 2015, the House passed on a 407-19 vote the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act. It was included in the year-end spending bill that President Obama signed on December 18, 2015. It seems like this law came to fruition with little to no acknowledgement by the public. If the public had decided to stay at least somewhat politically cognizant during the off-season of a presidential election, we would see no one, especially liberals and their media mouthpieces, flailing around screaming “racist!” at now-President Donald Trump for temporarily banning refugees from entering the United States. Believe it or not, this law,...